Born: 31 January 1875, United States
Died: 4 September 1955
Country most active: United States
Also known as: Mabel Higgins, Mabel Jacque Williamson
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Mabel Dwight moved easily between comedy and tragedy in the lives of people she portrayed in her prints. Born in Cincinnati, Dwight trained as an artist in San Francisco and Paris. After years of successful work as an illustrator in New York, she began making lithographs in 1927, at the age of fifty-two. In 1933 she participated with the Contemporary Print Group in creating two influential portfolios of realist prints. From 1935 to 1939 she worked for the Federal Art Project of the WPA.
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